A Bay Area grocery store will be the first to sell cultivated meat—but you only have a limited time to try it

If you’ve been eager to try cultivated meat—meat grown from cells, without the need to raise an entire animal—your options, so far, have been limited. The innovation has only appeared on a handful of restaurant menus since its approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

But if you’re in the Bay Area, you’re in luck: Cultivated meat startup Mission Barns will be selling its pork meatballs (made with a base of pea protein plus the company’s cultivated pork fat) at Berkeley Bowl West, one location of an independent grocery store in California.

It marks the first retail sale of cultivated meat in the United States, though the products are available for just one day only: Saturday, November 1.

That said, those in the area will have more chances to try Mission Barns’s cultivated m